Abstract
Abstract The lands in what is now Bulgaria have a long Christian tradition, established at the dawn of the Christian era. The first Christian communities were formed during the missionary journeys of Apostle Paul along the Aegean Sea coast and to the towns of Macedonia and of Apostle Andrew along the Black Sea coast. The first Christian community in Philipopolis (Plovdiv) was established by St. Ermus; that of Vereya (Stara Zagora) by St. Karpus, and of Odesos (Varna) by the Holy Martyr Amplius. By the 3rd century ad episcopal sees were also established in Develtus (Debelt), Anchialos (Pomorie), Marcianopolis (Devnya), Dorostorum (Silistra), Nicopolis ad Istrum, and elsewhere. After the Edict of Milan in 313 a dense network of Christian communities flourished in Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia, the provinces that later became the nucleus of the Bulgarian state.
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